BoD

2 hours ago, mallaig1983 said:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/ZgzXyWkqA49EtbBf/?
 

A bit of an experiment here as I’ve never tried linking a Facebook video to my RMweb thread. 

This is from the Mallaig Heritage Centre and show ‘Blaven’ being launched from the slip that features on my layout. It’s a bit fuzzy but I think it’s an absolutely wonderful little video.

Interesting.

I bet they were glad when they got the engine started.

21 minutes ago, Morello Cherry said:

Here is another of those woke baby millennials 'elf 'n safety freaks complaining about the sort thing that we used to deal with in ease in our day. Needs to grow up and start taking responsibility. I blame the parents myself.

 

Minding the gap: 'It's a scandal, it's a death trap'

 

A candidate for this

Doesn’t look very woke baby millennial to me.

Not quite sure what it has to do with WCRC’s battle with the ORR

This is turning into something special - if it wasn’t that already.

9 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said:

The only way I've managed it is with identical locos by a manfacturer, fitted with identical decoders with identical CV settings.

… and even then it’s not guaranteed.

10 hours ago, roundhouse said:

I recently found 10 cromptons in the loft and all still runnig. I do have a few Hoovers lurking somewhere.

We do too.

A Dyson, a Shark and an … erm … Hoover

9 minutes ago, DaveF said:

My postie comes everyday Mon - Sat, usually around 11.30.  He/she does the walking letter round then shortly afterwards brings any parcels in the van. 

Ours does the parcels first then the walking letter round.

Could this, I wonder, be the Northumberland/Durham equivalent of the Cornwall/Devon cream scone wars?

Looking at the Rails of Sheffield announcement there isn’t a BSOT (or any blue/grey* ) In the first batch.  
I may well have missed something though.

* unless you want a post office sorting van.

22 minutes ago, montyburns56 said:

Chequerbent 1965 by Nigel

 

 

The poor little fella’s legs must have had to go like the clappers to keep up.

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I don’t ever really wear bright colours, I am definately drawn to the drab spectrum. 

Terry Wogan Beige?

It was just a (clever?) play on the blue circle plaques and Venn diagrams. 
Hardly worth analysing to the nth degree.

27 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

We also share a proportion of our DNA with mushrooms.

I always knew there was something magic about me.

2 hours ago, Daddyman said:

Considering this is coming from the nutjob side of the debate

How rude.

5 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I managed to get myself ready and set off early for my 3pm in Leigh on Sea for my hearing test. The sound proof box was faulty but they have portable units for home visits. Anyway the test went well and pretty well confirmed by own belief/observations of the state of my hearing over the last year. It was however not just a case of boosting the default amplification but tweaking certain frequency bands. 
I got a cup of tea and a biscuit too!
Tony

The ‘tweaking of certain frequency bands’ in some modern hearing aids outperforms many top of the range graphic equalisers that cost and arm and a leg a few years ago.
 

Apart from the overall amplification I notice a huge improvement un the clarity of what I hear.  My (lack of) frequency response is a result of, and typical of, me having measles as a youngster.

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

IIRC, the average European of today has something like 3 - 5% Neanderthal DNA.

 

Dave

That’s most reassuring given that we share about 50% of our DNA with a banana.

21 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

The steam loco they use has broken down at least once.

Did it break down or just have problems with adhesion.  

36 minutes ago, Reorte said:

at some point I find the solutions more obnoxious than the problem and would prefer to live with the risk

That is fair enough if it were only you involved and happy to take the risk.  Others (the majority?) might prefer to have mitigations put in place to reduce that risk. I know you were speaking in more general terms, but  I wouldn’t like to be the one hit by a moving open door because someone else found fitting CDL ‘obnoxious’.

… but only if they don’t paint them in that blue.

16 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said:

BoD I thought Clockman was  referring to the arrangement where a relay is energised then one of its own set of  contacts maintains the energy to the coil.

Such an arrangement  requires a current  through the coil.  The interruption of that current by pressing a normally closed push button then switches the relay off.

 

 

Are you referring to some kind of mechanical  latching? How is such a relay then switched off?

Others have replied but RS-online has a useful explanation - again, as others have said, it may be a case of the terminology being used.

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/content/discovery/ideas-and-advice/latching-relays-guide

1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said:

A latching relay requires a constant current which the cdu  won't give.  I suppose  it would work with a twin coil relay of some sort  using a second supply to keep it latched. 

Sorry Colin, a latching relay does not require a constant supply once activated - hence the term latching. They are switched on and off by pulses of current.

1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said:

Photographer unknown : Paignton, 1959...

 

 

 

I hope he got more than just a 'bob'  if he was doing the whole engine.

1 minute ago, Coombe Barton said:

Did Hardknott a couple of times in 1979 in a 1300 Ford Fiesta

Another one without an engine.

Well done.

5 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Wasn't certain how to rate your post but in the end I think anyone who can do the pass without an engine thingy deserves a might big round of applause!

Note I did say once.

1 hour ago, ruggedpeak said:

Definitely need some TV company to a fly on the wall documentary about WCR's management......

Except they would somehow manage to come across as the wronged party and twist it into a tale of David v Goliath.